Web Stories <= 1.24.0 - Server Side Request Forgery

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE CVE-2022-3708
CVSS Critical (9.6)
Publicly Published October 26, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Aymen Borgi
Description

The Web Stories plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in versions up to, and including 1.24.0 due to insufficient validation of URLs supplied via the 'url' parameter found via the /v1/hotlink/proxy REST API Endpoint. This makes it possible for authenticated users to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug web-stories (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.24.0
Patched Version
  • 1.25.0
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